Danielson: Domain 1

Domain 1: Planning and Preparation	Outcome-Driven Instructional Leadership Team Practices
1a. Demonstrating Knowledge of content and pedagogy	Providing time for teachers to understand research base of lesson design
1b. Demonstrating Knowledge of students	Providing regular collaboration opportunities around automated assessment data and student work with colleagues who share cohort of students and with instructional leaders who are accountable for outcomes
1c Setting Instructional Outcomes	Providing alignment documents and pacing guides aligned to other instructional resources, developed in collaboration.
1d Demonstrating knowledge of resources	Providing time for macro planning to ensure successful launch, meaningful integration, and continuous improvement of teacher knowledge, skill and practice.
1e Designing Coherent Instruction	Providing time for macro-planning to ensure successful curriculum development, meaningful integration of resources, and continuous improvement of teacher knowledge, skill and practice.
1f Designing Student Assessments	Providing time to collaborate around larger projects and assessments to benchmark progress.

Marzano Design Questions

Domain 1:

1. What will I do to establish and communicate learning goals, track student progress and celebrate success?
2. What will I do to help students effectively interact with new knowledge?
3. What will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding of new knowledge?
4. What will I do to help students generate and test hypotheses about new knowledge?
5. What will I do to engage students?
6. What will I do to establisher maintain classroom rules and procedures?
7. What will I do to recognise and acknowledge adherence and lack of adherence to classroom rules and routines?
8. What will I do to establish and maintain effective relationships with students?
9. What will I do to communicate high expectations for all students?
10. What will I do to develop effective lessons organised into a cohesive unit?

Classroom: Differentiation and Coverage

What are we as instructional leaders doing to create the conditions for success for learning?

People	As a team, have you determined the underlying skills and concepts and the smaller chunks?
Processes	Have you designed the appropriate active learning strategy to match the learning task?
Places	Have you created spaces for active learning, self-pacing, additional help?
Products	Do you have products that support this work?
Time	As a team, are we providing enough time to go deep and differentiate appropriately?

 

Danielson: Domain 2

Domain 2: Classroom Environment
2a. Creating and Environment of Respect and Rapport
2b Establishing a Culture for Learning
2c Managing Classroom Procedures
2d Managing Student Behaviour
2e Organising Physical Space

Empathy Zones – opportunities for students to work in different spaces depending on their emotional state

“I understand”

“I think I understand”

“I don’t understand”

“I feel great and social”

“I feel ok but not great”

“I want to be left alone”

 

Planning: Operationalising Teams for Learning

What are we as instructional leaders doing to create the conditions for success for learning?

People	As a team, how are you determining what students should know and be able to do and helping each other to create it?
Processes	As a team, have you determined a good way to help students capture data and establish a good routine for using it?
Places	As a team, are you celebrating success?
Products	As a team, do you have a common resource that can support this work?
Time	As a team, are you allocating the necessary time to the looking at student work samples as one of the keys to monitoring progress?

 

Danielson Domain 3

Domain 3: Instruction
3a Communicating with Students
3b Using questioning and discussion techniques
3c Engaging students in Learning
3d Using Assessment in Instruction
3e Demonstrating Flexibility and Responsiveness

Danielson Domain 4

Domain 4: Professional Responsibility
4a Reflecting on Teaching
4b Maintaining Accurate Records
4c Communicating with families
4d Participating in the Professional Community
4e Growing and Developing Professionally
4f Showing Professionalism